The Wiz, with the help of cfbstats.com, digs into the early effect of the new clock rules, and finds “(a)lthough the data sample remains small, it’s pointing toward shorter games and fewer plays in 2008.” But they promised that wouldn’t happen!

Over at Garnet and Black Attack, here’s reason #1 why South Carolina will win in Nashville: “1. It’s Vanderbilt. They never win. Never mind.” It’s the honest moments you cherish.

HeismanPundit’scry from the heart about the Pac-10 being the Rodney Dangerfield of college football is certainly powerful (“SEC Jingoism must stop!”), and I agree with his premise that the Pac-10’s record against the SEC over the last ten years gives credence to his point, but has he noticed what the conferences’ all-time records against each other are?

I have noticed the all-time record. But I’m not sure how those records are relevant to the current bravado being spouted. When SEC fans and supporters talk about the conference’s superiority, they are talking about NOW. Recent events like the last two title games are cited, or the four BCS titles in the BCS era. And it really wasn’t until the advent of the information age that these arguments have taken on a life of their own. In that context, the recent record is more applicable.

This whole Pac 10 “we’re better than the SEC” argument is laughable to me.

No one seems to want to point out that the games in which the SEC has lost against PAC 10 teams (since 2000) are mid to lower tier SEC teams. We’re not talking about wins against Auburn, LSU, Florida, or Georgia.

We’re talking about wins against Bama, Arkansas, & Mississippi State for crying out loud!

When you can knock off our “one great team” and not just one from the “handful of mediocrity”, then you can bullshit our 10-6 record against the SEC.

(And as for the teams you noted… you might want to rethink including Auburn on that list; LSU beat up on our “mediocre” Arizona (2-10) & (6-6), Arizona State (7-5), and Oregon State (7-5); Georgia refused to leave their own state until this year; and let us know when Florida wants a home-&-home – any of our teams will take it.)

Georgia was scheduled for a road game at UCLA in 1984, but the Bruins bought out of it.

Bloviation for the Dawgnation

Quote Of The Day

“It brings back a great Bulldog running back in Thomas who has NFL playing experience and has had success as a college coach at multiple schools. He also inherits a position that has been built to an elite level by Bryan. And it gives Bryan the opportunity to return to coaching the position he played and the one where he cut his teeth serving as a graduate assistant under wide receiver coach John Eason here at UGA. It also provides him with a new experience as a passing game coordinator.” -- Mark Richt, AB-H, 2/16/15